Tassamara 01 A Gift of Ghosts by Sarah Wynde

Author:Sarah Wynde [Wynde, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rozelle Press
Published: 2014-04-29T22:00:00+00:00

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A relative. Damn it. She was about to talk to a relative.

These things just never ended well.

Akira stood in the doorway, trying to decide what to say, how to approach the subject. Oh, by the way, your ex-husband was just careless, not malicious? He didn’t actually murder your kid, just hid the body? No, that wasn’t the right starting place.

Zane and the blonde woman were sitting on the couch, Zane holding both of the woman’s hands in his. Although she knew there was nothing romantic or sexual in the touch, Akira felt a slight prickle of annoyance. Not that there was anything serious between her and Zane, but still, somewhere less than twelve hours ago, those hands had been touching her in very intimate places. Seeing them touching another woman just felt wrong.

Lucas was standing next to Zane, watching his brother. Two men stood a few steps behind him, also watching intently. FBI agents, Akira wondered? They could be, she supposed. They fit her stereotypical image of FBI agents, with unflattering suits, boring ties, and short hair. Farther away, where the family room met the kitchen, another cluster of people stood gathered around a table, some with heads down over a map, some talking in quiet voices.

So many people, she thought. Hell. Could she really do this? Before she had a chance to decide, a shock—as if she’d just been doused with ice water—ran through her. She shuddered convulsively and gasped, feeling the energy pouring into her veins, jolting its way along her spine. The adult ghost appeared inside the room, no longer pink-tinged.

“Don’t do that,” she hissed at him. Ugh, it hurt. She shivered again, blinking back tears of pain.

“You could feel me?” he asked, surprised, as the people closest to the door, including Zane, all looked in Akira’s direction.

“Of course I can,” she started to say irritably, but before more than the second word slipped through her lips, she noticed the people looking at her and pressed her lips together, looking up and away and at anything but them.

Before she had time to do more than take another breath, Zane was standing in front of her, his hands on her shoulders. “You okay?” he asked. She looked up at him. His face was serious and she could see the worry in his eyes.

She had told him nothing about ghosts, she realized. Nothing at all. All he knew was that she didn’t want people to know she could see them, and that she didn’t like having her ability. And yet he was still worried about her, still quick to jump up from what he was doing to make sure that nothing was wrong. She nodded at him and tried to smile.

“They’re both ghosts,” she whispered to him. “And both here.”

His eyes widened just slightly and he glanced over his shoulder at the woman sitting on the couch and then quickly back at Akira. “What do you want to do?” he asked her in a hushed voice.

She shrugged uncertainly, feeling helpless.

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